Prof Fabrizio Tediosi leads the Health Systems and Policies group in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) and is a professor at the University of Basel. He holds a degree in economics and management from the University of Pavia, Italy, an MSc in health economics from the University of York, UK and a PhD in international public health from the University of Basel. He is an economist specializing in health policy analysis, the economic evaluation of priority setting, healthcare costing, the organization and financing of health systems, the economics of drugs, the economics of ageing and international development cooperation. His research interests also include universal health coverage, the economic and social implications of the elimination and eradication of neglected tropical diseases and global health governance.

Prof Tedosi has produced more than 100 publications, including articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, book chapters and working papers. He has received research grants from and collaborated with several global health agencies such as the WHO, GAVI, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He has held several teaching appointments in European universities, including the University of Basel. In recent years, he has been the principal investigator on several research projects in the area of health policy and systems research, economic evaluation and social health protection.